Fly-killer.



No. 695,l89. Patented Mar. H, mm.

LILAMES.

FLY IGLLEB.

(Application filed: Nov. 18, 1001.)

(No Model.)

iffy m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IRVING H. AMES, OF HUDSON, MICHIGAN.

FLY-KILLER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,189, dated March 11, 1902.

Application filed November 18, 1901. burial No. 32,728. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, IRVING H. AMEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Hudson, in the county of Lenawee and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fly-Killers, of which the following is a specification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view of my improved fiy-killer. Fig. 2 is a side ele vation of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view parts being in section.

The object of 7 this invention is to produce an article of the class described of a construction that will not mar furniture or soil wallpaper or curtains or any other fabric on which the fiy may be struck; and with this object in view my invention consists of the parts and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter more fully set out.

1 represents the handle, comprising a single piece of wire which is bent upon itself at 2 to form two arms, said arms being bent inwardly, as at 3, and overlapped at such bent portions held in such relation with respect to each other by means of a sliding ring 4, said ring being adapted to be slid upon the handie. The ends of the arms comprising the handle are bent to form loops 5.

6 is a clamping member, the ends of which are bent back upon the body of the member, as at 7. (See Fig. 1.)

8 is the switch portion of the device, composed of a piece of light wire-netting, the outer edge of which is bent upon itself twice, so as to form a selvage edge to prevent the netting from fraying, as will be understood. The rear edge of the switch portion is loosely placed on top of the member 6, from which the said switch portion extends downwardly between the member 6 and its bent portion 7, thence under the portion 7, thence upward over said portion and over the member 6, thence downward, thenceforward under the portions 6 and 7, the body of the switch portion closely confining the edge of the portion on top of the member 6. This switch portion is further securely attached to the member 6 by means of the loop 5, formed on the ends of the handle, said loop passing under and over the portion 6, the extreme end of the loop being firmly bent and clamped hack of the member 6.

From the above it will be seen that I have produced an article of the class described which is free from sharp corners or projections, thus obviating scratching of furniture, (inc, and at the same time securing the switch portion in such manner that it is very flexible and at the same time sufficiently rigid to give force to the blow.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In combination; the switch portion having an outer selvage edge, a clamping member bent upon itself, in which the rear edge of the switch portion is intermeshed, and the handle firmly secured upon said clamping member and rear edge of the switch portion.

2. The combination with a clamping member, comprising arms bent upon themselves; of a switch portion of netted or open-work intermeshed between, over and under the arms of said clamping member, the outer edge of the nettedportion being bent upon itself to form a selvage edge, and the handle comprising a single piece of wire bent upon itself and loops on the ends of said handle adapted to be clamped around the clamping member, and the wire intermeshing with said clamping memben The foregoing specification signed this 16th day of November, 1901. l

IRVING'II. AMES.

In presence of- BERT D. CHANDLER, GRANT FELLOWS. 

